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Anyone know where the name of this song comes from?
Richard
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It's Flingel Bunt, and it was a Rock Griffin cartoon character that was carried
in Surfer Magazine.
Phil Dirt
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I don't think so, Phil. I am sure that the Shadows (who wrote the
song) had no idea about comics in the SoCal surfing scene. If
anything, given that the song was a bit hit in Europe, and was even
covered by several surf bands in the States, my guess it that
Griffin stole the name for his character from the song.
I have to check in my Shadows books, I believe there is some mention
of the meaning behind the name, but I just can't think of it right
now (and I'm at work).
Ivan
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> It's Flingel Bunt, and it was a Rock Griffin cartoon character
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SG101:
After searching the Internet, I haven't found much on
"Flingel Bunt".
It seems that the main Rick Griffin character is "Murph the
Surf"...I can't find "Flingel Bunt" associated with Rick
Griffin.
I did find "Flingel Bunt" on what looks like a UK model
airplane site:
maybe the airplane model is named after the song?
-dp
--- ipongrac <> wrote:
> I don't think so, Phil. I am sure that the Shadows (who
> wrote the
> song) had no idea about comics in the SoCal surfing
> scene. If
> anything, given that the song was a bit hit in Europe,
> and was even
> covered by several surf bands in the States, my guess it
> that
> Griffin stole the name for his character from the song.
>
> I have to check in my Shadows books, I believe there is
> some mention
> of the meaning behind the name, but I just can't think of
> it right
> now (and I'm at work).
>
> Ivan
>
>
> --- In , Phil Dirt
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> > It's Flingel Bunt, and it was a Rock Griffin cartoon
> character
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I don't know about the title but, for my money, "...Flingel Blunt" is
really a cop of the tune "One Mint Julep" that was popular circa
1960.
-Marty
--- In , Richard <errant_jedi@y...> wrote:
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Richard,
Google gave me this result:
From the page <>:
~!~!~!~
What's the origin behind the SHADOWS' song, "The Rise
and Fall of Flingel Bunt"? Took forever but we finally
found the answer. The world's preeminent experts on the
Shadows say the band often selected funny-sounding names
at their whim, and this was basically one of them.
~!~!~!~
As for the references to a model aircraft, that was
designed by a Stoo Holland in the late '60s, and he
said that he named the model after the song. (Site
reference address way too long to include here. <g>)
unlunf
Richard <errant_jedi@y...> wrote:
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> Anyone know where the name of this song comes from?
>
> Richard
>
--- In , "unlunf" <unlunf@y...> wrote:
> ~!~!~!~
> What's the origin behind the SHADOWS' song, "The Rise
> and Fall of Flingel Bunt"? Took forever but we finally
> found the answer. The world's preeminent experts on the
> Shadows say the band often selected funny-sounding names
> at their whim, and this was basically one of them.
> ~!~!~!~
There's just a bit more to it than that (though not much). Here's
an excerpt from the autobiography of Bruce Welch (the Shads' rhythm
guitarist) by the name of "Rock'n'Roll - I Gave You The Best Years
Of My Life:
"The first single John [Rostill, bass player] played on was 'The
Rise And Fall of Flingel Bunt', which we wrote together in the
studio. I suppose we were all taking a leaf out of the Beatles'
book now. It was written around an opening guitar riff with bags of
fuzz [must have been left off the final recording?]. Hank suggested
we make a twelve-bar instrumental out of it, because at that time
rhythm'n'blues was starting to take a stranglehold on the British
market and people were attracted to the heavier type of twelve-bar
blues. Norrie Paramor thought it had potential as a single. The
title came about courtesy of Richard O'Sullivan [well known British
actor], with whom we had worked on The Young Ones and Wonderful Life
[two Cliff Richard movies with the Shads]. It was the name of a
character he had invented - it was perfect. We had recently seen a
movie called The Rise And Fall Of Legs Diamond, and we liked the
title so much, we borrowed it. The record was released in May 1964
and was hailed by the music press as 'the Shadows new sound'. It
put us back in the Top Five and was voted instrumental of the year."
There you go.
Ivan
Ivan,
Great research! That's the kind of thing that makes you
scratch your head and wonder, "Why isn't that on some
website that can be found by Google?" Once again, the
dead tree edition wins the day. <g>
unlunf
--- In , "ipongrac" <ipongrac@g...> wrote:
>
> --- In , "unlunf" <unlunf@y...> wrote:
>> ~!~!~!~
>> What's the origin behind the SHADOWS' song, "The Rise
>> and Fall of Flingel Bunt"? Took forever but we finally
>> found the answer. The world's preeminent experts on the
>> Shadows say the band often selected funny-sounding names
>> at their whim, and this was basically one of them.
>> ~!~!~!~
>
> There's just a bit more to it than that (though not much).
> Here's an excerpt from the autobiography of Bruce Welch
> (the Shads' rhythm guitarist) by the name of "Rock'n'Roll
> - I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life:
>
> "The first single John [Rostill, bass player] played on was
> 'The Rise And Fall of Flingel Bunt', which we wrote together
> in the studio. I suppose we were all taking a leaf out of
> the Beatles' book now. It was written around an opening
> guitar riff with bags of fuzz [must have been left off
> the final recording?]. Hank suggested we make a twelve-bar
> instrumental out of it, because at that time rhythm'n'blues
> was starting to take a stranglehold on the British market
> and people were attracted to the heavier type of twelve-bar
> blues. Norrie Paramor thought it had potential as a single.
> The title came about courtesy of Richard O'Sullivan [well
> known British actor], with whom we had worked on The Young
> Ones and Wonderful Life [two Cliff Richard movies with the
> Shads]. It was the name of a character he had invented -
> it was perfect. We had recently seen a movie called The
> Rise And Fall Of Legs Diamond, and we liked the title so
> much, we borrowed it. The record was released in May 1964
> and was hailed by the music press as 'the Shadows new sound'.
> It put us back in the Top Five and was voted instrumental of
> the year."
>
> There you go.
> Ivan
>
I just checked the back of "The Shadows Are Go!" and
it's spelled "Flingel Blunt." Is that a mistake?
Richard
--- Phil Dirt <> wrote:
> It's Flingel Bunt, and it was a Rock Griffin cartoon
> character that was carried in Surfer Magazine.
>
> Phil Dirt
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--- In , Richard <errant_jedi@y...> wrote:
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> I just checked the back of "The Shadows Are Go!" and
> it's spelled "Flingel Blunt." Is that a mistake?
Yes.
